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HELP WITHOUT FRONTIERS is a non-profit organisation with the aim of helping Burmese civil war refugees. Our aim is to provide
help and support across national frontiers as well as across the frontiers that may exist in our minds and hearts.
The starting point of our work is the suffering of the Burmese refugees, who have been forced to flee from the brutal and
arbitrary violence inflicted on them by the military regime.
Since 1962 a brutal civil war has been devastating the border areas of Burma, today known as Myanmar, mostly unnoticed by the
international community. The aim of this war is the oppression and assimilation of more than 136 ethnic groups in Burma and
the eradication of their cultures and traditions.
At the moment, more than 600.000 refugees are living in Thailand in refugee camps or provisional compounds. Far worse is the
situation of the almost 2 million internally displaced persons inside Burma, who are forced to hide from military attacks in
hardly accessible jungle regions. Most of these people are suffering from malnutrition, they have neither access to medical
care nor to education.
Help without Frontiers was officially registered and acknowledged as a non-profit organisation
in the South Tyrolean directory of non-profit organisations on Feb 4th 2003.
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